So I live in Texas and we just had our winter freeze and there was a beehive that had fallen the night before (Jan 9th) the storm had hit. This morning the snow was finally melting and I noticed that some of them were moving and put them on a towel to keep them dry and sugar water to feed them. And as the snow kept melting more of the bee's started to move around, so I started to scoop up all the live and moving ones and placed them and the leftover honeycomb in a shoebox with holes in the sides incase they want out. I mostly want to know if they will live, and, if so, how can I help take care of them?

Also, I don't know if the queen is alive or not.

Just had another 3-4 inches of snow last night. When checking out around the hives I noticed bee activity, with an outside temperature of 34F. It’s a new record for the girls, typically I only see activity around 42F.

Loc. SW Ohio

I posted recently about a hive with no queen. Swarm happened Nov 27 (Southern Hemisphere). Now there are fewer bees, lots of capped honey and pollen, but no queen or brood. We introduced a couple frames with eggs, but nothing happened. Now, as we’re in mid-summer, wondering what the next step would be. 1. Let it die, harvest the honey, get a nuc? 2. Get a new queen - what would be the best time to do so?

My understanding is that a sous vide device, used for cooking (normally) can maintain a circulating bath of water at a specified temperature.

Wouldn't that work well for setting honey jars in to decrystallize honey?

I bee keep in Washington DC, though I don't think that matters to the substance of this question.

UK. A friend gave me some honey they brought back from holiday in Bulgaria & I'm wondering about the light clouding at the top of the jar. I've not used any yet as it started looking like when you use the butter knife to scoop some out so I'm wary that it's contaminated. It looks different to when other honey solidifies & this clouding appeared before it even set in the colder temps. Thanks.

DISREGARD

Hello! I just recently got permission to use a space to keep my very first hive! It came way sooner than expected so I need equipment and learning resources! I appreciate any info and thank you for your time!

Hey y'all! Central IN beek, been doing this for about two years. We recently received an unusual amount of snow for our area (10-11") and when I checked on the hive the entrance was covered by snow. It had likely been like that for a couple days but I couldn't get out sooner to check on them. There is a secondary exit in the super where their candy board is but idk how efficient it is for oxygen flow into the hive. I could hear them buzzing inside but it sounded pretty weak. How cooked am I? Did I kill my hive by letting some snow block the entrance?

I want to bring awareness on this issue. I am a queen breeder who sells queen bees. I recently listed them for sale on Google Shopping. Google Shopping tried to shut down my account for doing so.

I looked up information online and found this and would like everyone to bring it to attention as this I believe is unfair practice and inappropriate behavior on Google's part, only allowing companies like MannLake to list their queens, but smaller businesses to be flagged for suspension.

Please do not delete my post, this is about exposing the unfair practices on Google against small beekeepers and queen breeders and it needs to be brought to light.

Here is proof.

https://support.google.com/google-ads/thread/265262861/i-m-confused-about-live-animal-sales-and-transport?hl=en

https://i.gyazo.com/7d2fe4f559b81928f9f99fc44b668c37.png

I guess i'm technically a beekeeper but hella inexperienced.

I used to be a blacksmith and decided to crosspollinate skillsets.

But i've not actually used a hive tool, and elected to make my first one(s) myself/with a bud, as presents for some mentors.

What am i missing, what is NO, what is must do and not there?

I figure these will be fine for unwedging stuck frames, and i guess they're used for scraping or something too?

I kept a hive alive last summer. That's as far as i've gotten.

If it matters the forge is in NJ, the hives are in Iceland.

I’ve ordered some local raw honey and love it from Pennsylvania. Can anyone recommend a site I can order Some really tasty raw unpasteurized honey.

(Central, Florida)

I just got my first hives built around Christmas and decided I would rather try to catch a swarm off of the hive that lives in the side of my neighbors house instead of buying bees since they seem to swarm every year and they appear to be healthy.

So I put one of my brood boxes with the lid and bottom board in the backyard on some cinder blocks and sprayed the bottom board and lid with swarm commander. About a week ago I started putting out sugar water to make that area seem nicer.

It’s been a couple weeks so I decided to reapply the swarm commander this evening. The sugar feeders have been popular but I hadn’t seen any bees go on or in the hive (saw a wasp go in and out though). I take the top off and spray the lid, then I take the brood box off of the bottom board and spray the bottom board. Then I notice it. The bee. The single bee, sitting totally still as if frozen by astonishment when the large tree cavity she had found suddenly disappeared from around her as quickly as the subsequent lemongrass fumigation had hit her.

I quickly returned the brood box and top to their previous locations and went inside. I had convinced myself with online research that bees in my area wouldn’t start looking to swarm for a few weeks so I was a little surprised. So how traumatized did I leave this bee? Did I ruin the experience of a scout and blacklist myself, or will other bees from the hive still like the box and want it?

Hi everyone,

I’m seeking advice on how to help some bees that seem lost and keep swarming around my apartment complex. If this is not the right subreddit for this, guidance to the corrwct one would be greatly appreciated. Here’s the situation:

Every 2 weeks or so, about 20-30 bees swarm around a reflective fluorescent light. Many end up dying off.

I don’t think there’s a queen in this group, but I’m not very knowledgeable about bees.

I live in Los Angeles, if that’s relevant.

I’ve already asked my landlord to switch the fluorescent lights to warm lights, and they did, which seems to have reduced the number of bees but hasn’t stopped them from coming entirely.

My main concern is helping these bees, as it’s heartbreaking to see them die. I also need to keep my small dog safe, as she’s had two incidents of anaphylaxis after getting stung by dead bees in the bushes.

I’ve looked into bee removal services, but since they keep coming back, I’m not sure that’s the solution. Does anyone have advice on:

1. Why this might be happening?

2. What I can do to help redirect or safely assist these bees?

3. Any resources or services in the Los Angeles area that specialize in this sort of thing?

Thanks in advance for any guidance!

Brand new bee keeper and looking to buy my first hive. I have a budget around $300-$400. I was looking to do Langstroth 8 frame with two deep and three medium (Per my mentor). Any recommendations on where to buy from and what to look out for. (I am based is CO)

I’m sorry if this is a little confusing, but I want to be as thorough as possible. The photo is zoomed out quite a bit to visualize farm fields. These fields alternate between corn and beans every year. The sun rises in the top right and sets in the bottom left. We live in rural Ottawa, ON.

Red: Property line Green: Buildings Black: Laneway Blue/Purple/Yellow/Orange: Possible hive locations

The blue/purple was our first possible location options in mind, but I didn’t take into account that farmers spray their fields for pesticides so I don’t want to put my bees at risk. If we went with this location I would want to contact the farmers to see when they spray so I can take measures to protect the bees.

I like yellow as a location, but wind generally blows from the direction of the field on the bottom left so I worry about pesticides blowing from that direction and also wind in the winter which I don’t want to affect the bees. There is also sometimes foot traffic in this part of the yard so I don’t want the bees to get angry when they’re trying to get to their home and there’s people walking back and forth through their flight path.

I could probably place the bees anywhere in the orange location but there are a lot of low hanging trees which would be difficult for me and it’s quite shaded which could make inspections difficult. There is also a wild hive in one of the trees in this area, the bees are very gentle and we’ve never had any issues with them, I think they swarmed from an apiary about 3km away.

Anyway, I know this is a lot of information but I want to give my bees the best chance at success. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Hi!

I registered for a short course with my local association (beginning Jan 30th) with hopes to start beekeeping this spring.

Reflecting on your experience, anything I should do to prepare or any resources I need to explore to make my time more successful?

Thanks in advance!

Can anyone recommend a legitimate place to purchase VSH? I am in SC and have no problem driving a bit to pick them up, or someplace that can ship. Thanks so much.

Since bees can't see the color red,wouldn't it be easier and safe to work around bees if you make yourself invisible to them and just wear all your beekeeping gear in red

There was an old flow hive that last saw bees over a year ago. I went to inspect it and it was in very rough shape. Still had dead bee carcasses in the corner and insects in the flow comb. There was evidence of mite frass and old pinhole capping in the brood chamber. The comb was freestanding and almost all of it fell out when I removed the frames for inspection. I ended up just discarding it. My question is whether to use the hive at all and if I need to clean the flow comb. How is it cleaned? Soapy bleach water after disassembly? Also. I looked for foulbrood sign in some cells that were still capped. The rod came out with what looked like honey not brood. To be on the safe side should I bleach the boxes? I’m very leery about this hive. Oh. It’s been below freezing for a week here and it was 15F when I inspected it.

Hi everyone, this is my first winter with a hive. I'm located in the Pacific Northwest. I've been advised to treat again for mites over the next week, because we're in for a clear, rain free stretch of weather. Last fall, I did an OA dribble, and prior to that did formic pro patties.

What would you suggest to treat with this time around, knowing the weather will be colder? It's not a super strong hive, as going in the the cold weather, I had a bear get in to my hives and I only have one left of the survivers.

Thanks for your help!

I built my first hive. Top Bar. It is painted dark because it is placed under the deck to keep people from seeing it and freaking. Horseshoe Bay, Texas.

Hello Beekeepers from across the world. I am a beekeeper from Asia. I am making some frames for my bee hives. I already have the wooden frames ready, but I need to make the wax foundation.

My questions are:

1. Can I use discarded combs (like simply fixed in the wire)? Asking because I was told that it can cause diseases to spread.
2. If no, could I use handmade paper (instead of plastic sheet) coated in beeswax as the foundation?

Handmade paper that I get is thick and can support itself through stress of honey extraction. But I am unsure if it'd work.

Any advice would be appreciated. If nothing works I'll have to order beeswax sheets and I am a bit poor atm

I was gifted a pollen catcher for a hive entrance. After all these years, I'd managed to never know this was a thing.

What's the consensus on these things? I'm not inclined to use it.